Title 5
General Schedule (GS) and Wage Grade (WG): Pay systems for the majority of NIH employees, authorized under Title 5, and including the General Schedule (GS/GM) and Wage Grade (WG/WS/WL) pay plans.
- OPM 2009 General Schedule (GS) Locality Pay Tables
- 2009-DCB Washington-Baltimore-MD-VA-WV Locality Annual and Hourly
- 2009-GS Annual and Hourly
- Complete set of Locality Tables Annual and Hourly
(OPM) - 2009-RUS Rest of the US Locality Annual and Hourly
- Pay and Hours of Work Fact Sheets
- OPM Federal Wage System
- Department of Defence Civilian Personnel Management System (DOD CPMS) - Federal Wage Schedule
- Special Salary Rates
Senior, Executive & Scientific (ES/SL/ST): Senior Level and Scientific or Professional (SL/ST). The employment system that applies to any positions that are classified above GS-15 and involve executive management and high policy-making responsibilities.
- 2009 Basic Rates of Pay for Members of the SES (OPM)
- 2009 Executive Schedule (EX) (OPM)
- 2009 Base Rates of Pay for SL/ST (OPM)
- 2009 Locality Rates of Pay for SL/ST (OPM)
Title 42
Title 42 Section 209 (f) and (g): Title 42 Section 209 (f) and (g) is used to employ doctoral level scientists at a range of career levels, from fellows to the most senior research investigators and scientific leaders.
The IC Director/NIH Deputy Director Compensation Model (NIH Only) enables NIH to determine appropriate pay for senior scientific leadership positions based on multiple factors and provides for distinctions between IC Director/NIH Deputy positions and other NIH leadership positions
Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS): The Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS) is designed for scientists who are considered by their peers to be outstanding in their work, and who are engaged in either peer-reviewed, original, biomedical research, or clinical research evaluation. SBRS members’ pay may be set from a GS-15, step 1, to Executive Level I.
Clinical Research Support (CRS): A Title 42 excepted service employment system for Clinical Center (CC) employees engaged in direct or indirect clinical research patient care services.
- 2009 Title 42 CRS Pay Ranges
- 2009 Title 42 CRS Nurse AD-610 Pay rates
(Per Diem float Pool Nurses only) - Clinical Research Support Compensation System (NIH Only)
Title 38
Title 38 Physician and Dentist Pay (PDP) (NIH Only): A hybrid pay authority intended to recruit and retain highly qualified physicians and dentists by providing a mechanism to compensate them at levels comparable to private sector physicians and dentists within the same locality area.
Title 38 Nurses and Allied Health Professionals: Higher base pay scales authorized for nurses (pay plan GN) and allied health professionals (pay plans GS,GM) when necessary to address documented recruitment/retention problems and to provide rates that are competitive with the relevant labor market.
